The semi-weekly fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1887-12-06
NEWS AND. NOTES FOR WOMEN.


All Paris frocks are more looped than
London gowns
Ostrich feather bows and band trim
mings are coming in vogue.
The variety in bodices, corsages and
sleeves is seemingly endless.
The polonaise is revived, but is not
so popular here as on the other side.
A diamond sun, instead of star or
crescent, is the newest corsage brooch
for bride.
Next to yellow, cardinal red is the
best color for the ribbon of a lady's
driving whip.
There are about eighteen thousand
female students in the different colleges
in the United States.
Miss Ada Lee, an attorney at Port
Huron, Mich, has held the Office of Cir
cult Court Commissioner for three
years.
Nets of gold, silver and steel, jet
beads and other beads are not infre-
ouently drawn over the crowns of dressy
bonnets and hats.
The crowns of velvet and plush hats
and bonnets are frequently studded
thickly with sharks teeth, pointed
pieces of black jet.
Siren, pale sea green, shot with gold
and with crimson, appears in many of
the new ribbons and millinery fabrics,
pushes, velvets and moires.
Sensible fashions for children are now
the only good form and freedom of
movement and comfort are of first con-
sideration in all the details of the ward
robe.
Gobelin blue with very dark rich ma
hogany shades are used in chlldren's
costumes with good effect. This is also
a popular combination in ladies' cos
tunes.
The most elegant of all black gowns is
of velvet, trimmed with Chantilly laces
and rows of that long-stranded, tine-cut
jet bead fringe called rain fringe" by
drcssmakers.
Following the pretty English fashion,
even young matrons wear the breakfast
cap, and it is nowadays a most coquet-
fish and attractive affair of dainty lace
and velvet bows.
The Dutch patterns in children's cos
tunes still are the most attractive and
picturesque models, and the Gretchen
dress is still among the most becoming
and popular of ALL
Shot woollen fabrics, with the warp
of red, the wool of blue, green, brown,
yellow or gray, in various shades of those
colors, are the latest novelty seen on
dry goods counters.
A woman was awarded the first
premium for sheep raising at the last
state fair of Iowa. Many excellent in
ventions by Iowa women are coming into !
marketable demand.
Feathers, not stuffed birds, are seen
on the attractive bonnets this season,
but they are cocks plumes and ostrich
tips which do not shock the sensibilities
of the Audubon Society.
Colored borders to handkerchiefs of |
the most gaudy coloring are stylish. |
Yellow and black are the colors seen
most generally, but brilliant red and |
bright blue are also seen.
Queen Emma of Holland is brunette |
whose eyes would be very pretty did
she not continually wink when speaking,
thus giving you the impression of pre-
pairing for a good burst of tears
Miss A. E. Bell of London is said to
be the only woman in England engaged .
in regular business as a stockbroker.
MISS DCll was d VI GAO
lsh consul at Siam, but lost her father
early. s
There are great many beautiful new
woolens in cross bars and plaids which
are not in any sense true tartans but
which are beautiful in effect and which
will be generally worn the coming
season.
The half girdle of velvet is the pre-
tIest finish for a fan or a shirred waist.
Sometimes the half girdle joins sash,
which is tied behind in a bow. The
sash is still an attractive part of the
costume.
The English felt turbans and toques
for wear with tailor gowns
have close rolling brims, bound, or
rather bordered, with wide silk hatters'
galloon or braid, and frequently the
is loops of the same GALLON
and few quilts.
The dressiest short wraps of bengaline
and velvet or plush are deliberately
with lace, bead fringes, and
sometimes with metal
thread embroideries and soutache, and
to these for cold weather bands of fur
are added.
The ''tournure war" goes on with I'M
abated vigor Fashion writers say the
hustle is out Of date; artists declaim
against it on aesthetic grounds, physi-
clans on hygienic; but the fashionable